An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else. The word approximation is derived from Latin approximatus...
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expansion used in the approximation. The expressions: a zeroth-order approximation, a first-order approximation, a second-order approximation, and so forth are...
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Rational approximation may refer to: Diophantine approximation, the approximation of real numbers by rational numbers Padé approximation, the approximation of...
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mathematics, Stirling's approximation (or Stirling's formula) is an asymptotic approximation for factorials. It is a good approximation, leading to accurate...
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successive approximation are a category of strategies in pure and applied mathematics. Successive approximation also may refer to: Successive approximation ADC...
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In number theory, the study of Diophantine approximation deals with the approximation of real numbers by rational numbers. It is named after Diophantus...
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In the mathematical theory of artificial neural networks, universal approximation theorems are theorems of the following form: Given a family of neural...
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In geometric optics, the paraxial approximation is a small-angle approximation used in Gaussian optics and ray tracing of light through an optical system...
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In computer science and operations research, approximation algorithms are efficient algorithms that find approximate solutions to optimization problems...
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scattering theory and in particular in quantum mechanics, the Born approximation consists of taking the incident field in place of the total field as...
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